Pissed Off in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
A couple Prospect Lefferts Gardens are fed up with the condition of their building and aren’t gonna take it anymore…so they’re blogging about the offending edifice. The blog’s name, 10 Midwood Sucks, pretty much sums it up: The writers say they impulsively signed a lease at the beginning of the summer and want to portray…
A couple Prospect Lefferts Gardens are fed up with the condition of their building and aren’t gonna take it anymore…so they’re blogging about the offending edifice. The blog’s name, 10 Midwood Sucks, pretty much sums it up: The writers say they impulsively signed a lease at the beginning of the summer and want to portray a poorly managed, under-maintained, out of date, dirty, smelly, bunker which makes the worst college dorm seem like the Governor’s Mansion. The posts mostly document waste of uncertain origin left in 10 Midwood’s hallways, which ranges from urine (If piss were oil, 10 Midwood would be Saudi Arabia) to feces (a nice steamy dog turd) to weaponry (Free rusty knife + shady neighborhood = crime). The bloggers claim they set up the site to warn potential renters away from the building and its landlord, Lincoln Five Realty. Any readers have first-hand experience with these hands-off owners?
10 Midwood Sucks GMAP
This is Besen Associates/NYC Management — the same owner as 50 Lincoln Rd., 64 Lincoln Rd., and 2121 Beekman Court. They are based in Manhattan at 381 Park Ave South. My former company used to list their apartments until too many of the tenants we’d put in there moved out because of crime, filth, management bookkeeping errors, or a combination of the three.
The buildings are getting somewhat better, but, in the case of 50 Lincoln Rd at least, the super was in league with the various drug dealers who lived there and kept abbetting the breaking of the front door to make it easier for clients to access their dealers.
I understand management being a bit overwhelmed by all the problems of these buildings, but then to want to attract new tenants and then treat them like crap by not providing appliances, etc., as promised is counter-productive. My ex-company had to find new apartments (at no charge) to two former tenants and several others just moved out on their own. One woman was taken to court by NYC Management, who claimed she was in arrears on her rent — she of course was able to produce all her cancelled checks, and it turned out that “someone” had been crediting her payments to another apartment, the tenants of which had not been paying rent.
the most dangerous and noisy thing about plg is the swarms of eight and nine-year-olds on bicycles —> many of them are cannibals and carry automatic weapons and pee where they are not supposed to
“I personally have tenants with dogs that, believe it or not, on occasion shit in the public hallways and there’s nothing I can do except have the shit cleaned up. ”
Exactly!
I guess that’s the difference between a decent landlord and the one in question who, it seems, does not bother to have the shit cleaned up
Why should the landlord have to clean up dog shit from the hallways?
Pet laws in NYC need to be changed to landlords can forbid pets from residential apartment buildings.
As they stand, landlords who don’t start evicition cases against tenants within three months of knowing of pets can’t do anything more about it.
I personally have tenants with dogs that, believe it or not, on occasion shit in the public hallways and there’s nothing I can do except have the shit cleaned up.
NYC tenant/landlord laws must be changed. These laws are absurd!
I don’t care if the apartment was free and I couldnt afford to live elsewhere,I couldnt just stand by and live under these conditions.Totally unacceptable.I would have to bring attention to the matter somehow,by calling the media,newspapers,..Help me Howard, Shame on you..311…housing complaints..I would get somebodys attention. There has to be some legal recourse. This is a definite quality of life issue.Who has to live like this because the rent is low or they cant afford anything better for now?What kind of pig allows their pet to piss and crap in the place they call their home?How pathetic and sad. I wish them well in their efforts.
this guy has GOT TO BE KIDDING. this is NYC, is it not? if he can’t afford a decent place, well, then, this is what he’ll get.
UNLESS, of course, he moves. sunnyside, ridgewood, oh, forget it, there are hundreds of neighborhoods in queens and brooklyn.
finally, if he thinks that place is dirty, i suggest that he take himself on a three hour tour and check out the rest of the hood.
oh, brudder.
If rent control/stabilization in NYC were abolished, and the eviction laws were changed to be more more like those in other states, bad tenants could be evicted, rents could be raised to market levels, and buildings would be maintained much better for the simple reason that landlords would profit by doing so.
I’m a landlord with several buildings. While I keep the buildings clean, and have picked up shit from the hallways a few times myself, I purposely do not make the public areas especially attractive. Half of my tenants are rent stabilized or rent controled and pay absurdly low rents. There’s no incentive for me to make the buildings nicer for them. When they’re all dead and gone, I’m sure my heirs will renovated the hallways and that’s fine with me.
PLG’s buildings do seem to have there fair share of problems.
http://163ocean.blogspot.com/
PLG is a ghetto and many of the buildings there are gross. I teach nearby and looked at many many apts and returned at all times of day and it came down to the fact that there was no way I was walking my dog at 10pm alone… I appreciate what a lot of the neighbors in those parts are going through but it will only change when the section 8 gets kicked out (which sucks for the section 8’rs) or local residents start to care (and we’re not talking about the PLUS people).
Also from the mouths of babes –
Me to students – I’m trying to move to be closer to school. I’m looking at a place on Ocean Ave and Parkside. What do you think?
Student – Ms that is bad! We moved to bed stuy from there.